That Anthem gameplay was demonstrated, presented, really badly. Jumping all over the place, fairly dull looking combat, so much flying about like a tinpot bluebottle. The UI is obtrusive, the numbers flying off enemies is really distracting.

Meep wrote:I was hoping for a surprise reveal of Dragon Age 4 or something.

That would have livened things up massively . A new Dragon Age using the same style as Origins on PC with the fully zoomable view so you could play as an proper turn based RPG if you wanted would have made this conference about 500 times better.

EA never do particularly good conferences but this was poor even by their standards.

Absolutely nothing of note.

Anthem looks worse than it did last year and as I feared is just going to be Destiny with Iron Man suits.

Unravel two looked nice enough but that was about it.

EDIT: Oh and I really don't understand their handling of Command and Conquer. They have what was once the biggest name in RTS games and they've utterly shat upon it. They should be getting a quality team behind it and positioning it as their Starcraft/eSports entry.

At this stage I say I'm non-plussed about Anthem. Graphics look crisp, movement looks good but nothing has been shown about the world, the enemies or the characters to get me excited. However Bioware have earned enough good karma for me to give it my attention and there is likely a big mystery with the story so that might be why nothing much has been said.

It was alright, I guess. Just finished covering it on my blog, and though I won't copy everything across, the basic summary is that it felt the conference was on an unbalanced board with some okay stuff and other things that felt it didn''t need to be there.The two indies and Star Wars [despite nothing being shown] were the only highlights for me.